Jeffrey Tambor has released a statement following his firing from the cast of Amazon’s award-winning Jill Soloway series Transparent this week. It’s a contemptuous and blame-shifting denial of Van Barnes and Trace…

There are two kinds of winners in this life: there’s the kind who wins by quads with triple-toe loops. And then there’s the kind who summons his soul from his mortal flesh to perform a men’s free skate program so tender and graceful that, when Johnny Weir says in hushed voiceover–“he’s portraying a bird with a broken…

The very smart Google employee who concluded that people with balls have more “drive”–and then circulated that conclusion in a 3,000 word thesis in an internal company network–has lost his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) challenge arguing that Google violated labor laws for firing him in August. Bloomberg reports

Despite what door-to-door salesmen might tell you, you don’t need a full set of knives. You can breeze through about 99% of kitchen tasks with just a few important blades, and they’re all included in this discounted 4-piece set.

Omarosa, Apprentice and White House alum–currently the best thing that ever happened to Celebrity Big Brother–was asked if she’d slept with Donald Trump. And she went ahead and said this, via Entertainment Weekly’s Celebrity Big Brotherrecap:

For the first time since Dick Button in 1952, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in men’s figure skating has defended his title as Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu scored a combined 317.85 to obliterate the competition.

Thoroughbred Fox News monster Laura Ingraham delivered a stunning performance of pure evil this week, advocating on Wednesday for AR-15s during a segment on the school shooting, and then on Thursday criticizingLeBron James and Kevin Durant for criticizing Trump because everybody should shut up and listen to Laura…

Above, you can see me stomping into the club, eyes shielded, hair firmly tucked inside the stiff striped cloth of a hat shaped like bow-tie noodles. The crowd parts, agog at my elegance, my sensuality, my ability to walk without eyesight while balancing a large sculpture on my head. “Thank you, Mulberry,” I whisper,…

This Wednesday, in a Valentine’s Day gift to campaign finance nerds the world over, Rebekah Mercer, the mysterious daughter of mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer, wrote a short essay for the Wall Street Journal responding to unspecified “sensational fantasies” and “absurd smears.” It is, essentially, a press release…

Black Panther, as an idea, has persisted in our imaginations for well over a year. More than just dominating conversations, the film’s mere existence, its possibilities, and its rare cast of gifted dark-skinned black people, allowed us to fantasize. The Marvel world of Wakanda, though it’s been around for over 50…